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Inside baseball here: I made this one back during the Great Flurry of Puzzle Writing (December 2016 edition). And a first draft of this puzzle had a completely different answer at 37-Down (and surrounding fill). I can’t remember what said answer was, but, it stunk up the joint big time. My testers hated it. Frankly, I hated it. But hey, sometimes you have answers that you just have to, you know, “live with” and hope don’t cause too much of a kerfuffle to the solver. Well, this wasn’t one of those times and I had to really dig deep to find a different fill for that corner. Anyway, I point it out because what eventually became the answer at 37-Down is one of those Hail Mary-type answers that are just so perfect, it feels like it was the only answer that could have possibly worked there. I love that it looks like a completely different word until you parse it the correct way. Anyway, hope you enjoy it, and the crossword.
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